Hvitsten
Hvitsten is a former town in Akershus county, Norway, located between Drøbak and Son. It is the smallest town that has ever existed in Norway: In 1951 it had 76 inhabitants, and an area of just 0.07 km2.Photo: Colliekar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: settlement in Vestby municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Hvitsen” and “Hvitstein”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pepperstad skog.
Pepperstad skog
Residential area
Pepperstad skog is a village in Vestby, Akershus, Norway. Pepperstad skog is situated 2½ km east of Hvitsten.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ramme Gaard and Drøbak.
Ramme Gaard
Hamlet
Photo: Øyvind, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ramme Gaard is an organic farm and country estate located by the Oslofjord, just north of Hvitsten in the Vestby municipality of Akershus, Norway. Ramme Gaard was previously owned by billionaire philanthropist Petter Olsen.
Drøbak
Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Drøbak is in the Frogn municipality, in the county of Akershus in Norway, at the shores of the Oslofjord, a few miles south-east of Oslo.
Hvitsten
- Categories: human settlement, urban area in Norway, ladested, and locality
- Location: Vestby, Akershus, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.59906° or 59° 35′ 57″ northLongitude
10.65871° or 10° 39′ 31″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
NO HVTOpen location code
9FFGHMX5+JFOpenStreetMap ID
node 14061421624OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
3151289Wikidata ID
Q4586097
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hvitsten” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hvitsten”
- Danish: “Hvitsten”
- Dutch: “Hvitsten”
- French: “Hvitsten”
- German: “Hvitsten”
- Irish: “Hvitsten”
- Japanese: “ヴィトステーン”
- Japanese: “ヴィドステン”
- Javanese: “Hvitsten”
- Malay: “Hvitsten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvitsten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvitsten”
- Norwegian: “Hvitsten”
- Romanian: “Hvitsten”
- Swedish: “Hvitsten”
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Notable Places Nearby
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